contain

Verb

Meaning

To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.

To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

control incorporate comprise curb hold bear carry stop check arrest moderate restrict restrain embody enclose

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release exclude vent vend state word

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include keep defend restrain be hold back

bate train retain catch deny suppress

cantion actinon nanotic

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